The history of Forward
Township is being presented by utilization of a number of hyperlinks.
Like everywhere else in this entire website hyperlinks are printed using the
color BLUE. If you click on any hyperlink and your are taken to
another page -- where more information is presented.

We welcome help in adding to
this history of Forward Township. If you have any articles, pictures, etc.
that you would be willing to share on this website, please send me an email
using this hyperlink:
email. Of particular interest would be old pictures of coal
mines and other landmarks that have disappeared over the years.

This Link is to a website outlining the
History of Forward Township starting with the time it was know as the
"Jersey
Settlement".

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Forward Township was named after Walter
Forward. Walter Forward was a Congressman, Treasury Secretary of
the United States Treasury under President John Tyler, and the President
Judge of the District Court of Allegheny County. Although
the Township was named after him,
Walter Forward
never lived in Forward Township, and there is no evidence he was ever
even within the borders of the Township.

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This section presents the early history of
the Ella Hollow section of Forward Township, or what was the Ella Hollow
section before the renaming of the roads a few years ago. This
history details the settlement of the area by
Joseph Beckett, where Beckett's Run enters the Monongahela River
(where Routes 906 & 136 intersect). Another Link provides
some information on the
Beckett's Run Mine located in Ella Hollow.

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This is a copy of the 1969Forward
Township Centennial booklet.A
copy of this booklet, which was provided by Chief Thomas Staley, is on
file at the Municipal building and available for review and copying
(original cannot leave the building).